Thomas Friedman comes up with some fairly wacky mixed metaphors, and he's got a love for globalization that only a wealthy cat who gets to write whatever he wants for the New York Times (lucky bastard) could have, but he's probably got something approaching a point with this editorial about Iraq.
Though Friedman may be right about the differences between the Arab world and Europe, though he fails to mention the reason the Arabs don't have much in the way of civil society might have something to do with the fact we (or at least the Brits and the French) traded them around like baseball cards for the last two centuries.
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